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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

2,447 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 123

Johnson Rests Injured Foot

The Sun · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 35

MELBOURNE. Wednesday.--Test and Victorian off spinner Ian Johnson was still in bed, resting an infected…

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Clay to Rest Injured Hand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 11

Lightweight Alfie Clay will return home to Queensland soon and will not fight for another two or three months his manager, Ern McQuillan, said last night…

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Child killed at scene of accident

The Sun · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 1

COOTAMUNDRA, Wednesday.--James Robert Vesperman, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon…

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[?]wo Dead In Mine Accidents

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 9

Two men were killed in mine accidents today. Newcastle the mutilated of a mine deputy was and near an underground…

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Two Dead In Mine Accidents

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 9

Two men were killed in mine accidents today. At Newcastle the mutilated body of a mine deputy was found near an underground…

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Two Dead In Mine Accidents

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 9

Two men were killed in mine accidents today. At Newcastle the mutilated tody of a mine deputy was Sund near an underground…

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Injured boy gets £6000 damages

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 2

Seven-year-old Ian Kenneth Jones, of Park Street, Erskineville, was awarded £6000…

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Riding Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 8

William George Holley, 61, widower, of Curragunda, four miles from Tenterfield, was killed when thrown from his horse…

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Man Injured In Residental

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 4

Called to a residential in Palmer St., East Sydney, early today, police found John McNally…

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Injured Vanish After Crash

The Sun · Sunday 18 February 1951 · page 3

FOUR injured occupants of a car disappeared after it had overturned and was…

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Bike crashes through fence, two injured

The Sun · Sunday 18 February 1951 · page 2

Two men were injured, one critically, when a motor cycle crashed through a fence in Victory Street, Clovelly,…

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Injured vanish from wrecked car Police dogs to search

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 February 1951 · page 3

Fifty farmers and police last night began a search for four seriously injured people who disappeared from a wrecked car at Vineyard, near Windsor. The searchers…

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Ambulance Man Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

A St. John Ambulance officer, who was in attendance at the Bankstown Olympic pool yesterday…

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Injured Driver's Battle to Save Runaway Bus

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 6

A bus struck a telegraph pole, mounted a path and crashed through a brick fence today in Victoria Rd., Ryde. The driver, Norman Car- mody (44), Moreton St.,…

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Injured Driver's Battle to Save Runaway Bus

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

A bus struck a telegraph pole, mounted a path and crashed through a brick fence today in Victoria Rd., Ryde. The driver, Norman Carmody (44), Moreton St.,…

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Injured Driver's Battle to Save Runaway Bus

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

A bus struck a telegraph pole, mounted a path and crashed through a brick fence today in Victoria Rd., Ryde. The driver, Norman Carmody (44) Moreton St.,…

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Injured Driver's Battle to Save Runaway Bus

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 6

A bus struck a telegraph pole, mounted a path and crashed through a brick fence today in Victoria Rd., Ryde. The driver, Norman Carmody (44), Moreton St.,…

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Wally and the Major By accident

The Sun · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 17

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Aged Woman Drowned

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 February 1951 · page 7

A man last night found his mother drowned in a dam on their property at…

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Aged Woman Drowned

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 February 1951 · page 3

A man last night found his mother drowned in a dam on their property at…

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